2017 new years tea resolutions
In 2016, I became intimately familiar with green teas and oolongs. This year I plan to dabble in black and puerh teas and also explore herbals because I need more caffeine free options at night.
And I’m striving to keep my stash lean and mean. Less hoarding, drink down what I have before rushing to order.
If you find any interesting caffeine free otions, let us know. I do wish I could drink tea all evening long. I have found that Jiaogulan is a viable alternative. I brew this in my gaiwan gong-fu style and it just about satisfies my tea-moment cravings. I get it from Canton Tea, but it’s sold in a few places.
Bitterleaf Tea has a tea tree flower cake that I’ve heard good things about. You might want to try that out. It’s sweet, honey-like, and herbal.
edit* it’s out of stock now, but I heard murmurs that theyre restocking in the next week or so.
http://www.bitterleafteas.com/shop/tea/non-puer/fair-lady-ancient-tea-tree-flower
I have a sample of an herbal from Verdant that’s supposed to taste like green tea: http://verdanttea.com/teas/spring-wild-laoshan-gan-zao-ye-ziziphus-jujube-leaf-herbal-tea/
It’s gotten pretty good reviews here on Steepster. Excited to try it out tonight.
Teavivre and Teasenz have a pretty good selection of herbal teas. I’m curious to try their honeysuckle, myosotis, lotus leaf, and red dates teas.
Totem tea has some good herbals: https://www.totemtea.com/collections/floral. My favorite of those that I’ve tried is the kuwacha; kindof a umami slap in the face.
1. 100 sipdowns minimum: stretch goal of 200
2. Make this year’s puerh orders from new vendors. I’ve been in a rut.
3. Drink up all the non-puerh that is more than 2 years old, then restock on Black Friday.
4. Spend more time just drinking tea rather than drinking while reading, working, watching TV, etc.
" Spend more time just drinking tea rather than drinking while reading, working, watching TV, etc."
Guilty as charged for me as well!
Drinking tea while reading is a double pleasure though. Two of my favourite things. Add a cat sitting beside me, an nice window with sun coming in , and it’s just perfect.
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